Sunday, June 17, 2007

Latest Technology

The latest technology is doing 3 - Dimensional imaging. This includes doing volumes of a particular organ to evaluate it in a third dimension, which is the coronal plane. The current planes that can be acquired are the transverse, which is like a slice of bread. Sagittal, which is like the top of the bread. The coronal plane would be the equivalent of looking into the middle of the loaf. This is especially beneficial to determine the extent of pathology, ie tumor invasion and also plaque pattern within a vessel.

4 comments:

Eileen said...

Great up-to-date info--makes me realize how the field has changed since I was a tech in the late 70's.Great opportunities in this ever expanding field of medicine

posted by JoAnn said...

Very informative and interesting.

lin said...

This field is total new for me,it is a very interseting field.

Linda's Blog said...

Excellent information and a wonderful blog.